Objections

Who can you trust these days? Guess not the NYRA, who fired former longtime jockey Braulio Baeza (on the scale) from his job as assistant clerk of scales working at the New York tracks. Baeza undereported their weights, sometimes by as much as 15 pounds. For doing so, Baeza received gratuities from jockeys Jose Santos, Cornelio Valesquez, Areil Smith, Robbie Albarado, and Herb Castillo. The jockeys have not been charged. Santos, for one, denies any wrongdoing.

I am thinking of initiating a class action suit against the NYRA. I am rumaging through my stacks of lost tickets as I type. Anyone who wants to join me can respond. This evidence of cheating has me thinking of giving up gambling forever. By the way, anyone who guesses the jockey standing behind Baeza is my hero.

Though not as serious, there have been allegations of wrongdoing, or at least poor judgment, in the recent songs contest. JL has lodged an objection that he was in the process of answering a question AND an extra credit before the answer was given. Stewards on the scene ruled against him. An appeal was presented this morning to the 121CC and is pending investigation.